NHER 59600 (Find Spot record) - Post-medieval pottery and metal objects

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Summary

In 2001 a number of post-medieval objects were recovered during the excavation of a cable trench. No archaeologically significant features or deposits were identified. Metal-detecting in 2004 also recovered items of predominantly post-medieval date, including a crotal bell, weight, shoe buckle, a lead bird feeder or powder measure and a number of musket balls.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TG22NE
Civil Parish	NORTH WALSHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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June-July 2001. Watching Brief.
Observation of trench dug for new electricity cable running between Bacton and North Walsham (Field 6).
No archaeologically significant features or deposits observed.
Unstratified finds recovered included:
1 post-medieval coin, 1 pottery sherd, 1 copper alloy button and 1 copper alloy unidentified object.
See report (S1) for further details. The results of this work are also summarised in (S2).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.442).
H. Hamilton (HES), 19 August 2013. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 1 May 2015 and 27 May 2019.

Before 20 December 2004. Metal-detecting. Extended to whole field.
1 ?Roman or medieval lead ?pot mend.
1 post-medieval copper alloy weight, 1 crotal bell, 1 shoe buckle, 1 circular lead vessel (possibly a bird feeder or powder measure) and 5 lead musket balls.
1 undated set of lead weights with a vessel, 4 additional lead weights and a number of unidentified lead objects.
Identified by E. Darch (NLA), 14 July 2005. See descriptions and finder's map in file [1].
P. Watkins (HES), 14 February 2019.

Associated Sources (2)

<S1> SNF49501 Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. and Underdown, S. 2001. Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief on the North Walsham to Bacton Cable Trench. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 612.
<S2> SNF82150 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2002. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk, 2001. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt I pp 162-177. p 170.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (11)

WEIGHT (Unknown date)
POT MEND (Roman to Medieval - 43 AD? to 1539 AD?)
BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
BUTTON (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
MUSKET BALL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
VESSEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
WEIGHT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

May 27 2019 6:56PM